11 Facts About Liquidmetal

Liquidmetal alloys combine a number of desirable material features, including high tensile strength, excellent corrosion resistance, very high coefficient of restitution and excellent anti-wearing characteristics, while being able to be heat-formed in processes similar to thermoplastics.

Liquidmetal, created by Dr Atakan Peker, contain atoms of significantly different sizes.

The zirconium and titanium based Liquidmetal alloys achieved yield strength of over 1723 MPa, nearly twice the strength of conventional crystalline titanium alloys, and about the strength of high-strength steels and some highly engineered bulk composite materials.

Liquidmetal alloys are therefore generally more corrosion resistant, both due to the mechanical structure as well as the elements used in its alloy.

Liquidmetal combines a number of features that are normally not found in any one material.

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One of the first commercial uses of Liquidmetal was in golf clubs made by the company, where the highly elastic metal was used in portions of the club face.

Since then, Liquidmetal has appeared in other sports equipment, including the cores of golf balls, skis, baseball and softball bats, and tennis racquets.

Ability to be cast and molded, combined with high wear resistance, has led to Liquidmetal being used as a replacement for plastics in some applications.

Liquidmetal was used in the Biolase dental laser Ilase and the Socketmobile ring bar code scanner.

Liquidmetal has notably been used for making the SIM ejector tool of some iPhone 3Gs made by Apple Inc, shipped in the US.

Plates of Liquidmetal were used in the solar wind ion collector array in the Genesis space probe.